The lyrics of Blanc parodied clichés of romantic ballads, updated antiqueted forms such as the bolero, and enriched the pop of the era with baroque poetic gestures over spare instrumentation. Their enthusiasm for more popular forms, particularly the samba, didn't diminish. "O Bêobado e o Equilibrista" (The Drunk and the Tightrope Walker), for example, commented on the political outlook at the end of the 1970s but serves equally well as an unforgetable dance track. To integrate samba and other traditional national forms with insights equally poetic and political, Bosco and Blanc highlight MPB's central points of pride.